Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 12 : Selected Papers from the 45th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Campinas, Brazil.

Intro -- Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 12 -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Foreword -- Chapter 1. Modality, presupposition and discourse: The meaning of European Portuguese afinal and Italian alla fine -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Empirical data from European Portuguese and Italian -- 2.1 Plan-related propositions -- 2.2 Non plan-related propositions -- 2.3 Temporal uses of alla fine -- 3. Analysis of the data -- 4. Perspectival shifts -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Corpora used -- Chapter 2. Exempt anaphors and logophoricity in French -- Introduction -- 1. Issue: How to identify exempt anaphors? -- 1.1 How to define locality requirements of anaphors -- 1.2 The inanimacy strategy -- 1.3 Specific caveats for French anaphors -- 2. Descriptive generalization: Logophoricity of exempt anaphors -- 2.1 Logophoricity -- 2.2 French exempt anaphors in attitude contexts -- 2.3 French exempt anaphors in non-attitude contexts -- 3. Analysis: Binding by logophoric operators -- 3.1 Logophoric operators -- 3.2 The position of logophoric operators -- 3.3 Interaction between logophoric centers -- 4. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 3. What's up with dative experiencers? -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Ordering facts with and without datives -- 2.1 The contrasts -- 2.2 This is not a lexical property: Alternations with the same verb -- 2.3 An aspectual contrast -- 2.4 Argument restrictions -- 3. The two vP structures -- 3.1 The structure of dative experiencer verbs -- 3.2 An intervention effect -- 3.3 The structure of the accusative construal -- 4. Movement without information structure consequences -- 4.1 Dative experiencers are not quirky -- 4.2 Only high datives are potential interveners -- 4.3 Theoretical consequences -- 5. Conclusions -- References.

Chapter 4. Aktionsart and event modification in Spanish adjectival passives -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Aktionsart and event-related modification: The data -- 3. The proposal -- 3.1 The theoretical background -- 3.3 Severing the EV-T argument from its verb -- 3.4 Apparent counter-examples: Gehrke's event kinds -- 4. Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 5. Revising the canon: Social and stylistic variation of coda (-ɾ) in Buenos Aires SpanishSocial and stylistic variation of coda (-ɾ) in Buenos Aires Spanish -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The current study -- 2.1 Speakers -- 2.2 Tasks and recording procedures -- 2.3 Acoustic analysis -- 2.4 Statistical analysis -- 3. Results and discussion -- 3.1 Global results -- 3.2 Age -- 3.3 Sex -- 3.4 Socioeconomic class -- 3.5 Speech style -- 4. Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 6. Hiatus resolution in L1 and L2 Spanish: An optimality account -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Data and generalizations -- 2.1 Experimental design -- 2.2 Results -- 3. An Optimality Theoretical analysis -- 3.1 Grammars and constraints -- 3.2 State initial (L1 English) -- 3.3 State n (Interlanguage) -- 3.4 State target (L2 Spanish) -- 4. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 7. Recursion in Brazilian Portuguese complex compounds: Recursion in Brazilian Portuguese complex compounds -- 1. Introduction: The place of compounds in Prosodic Phonology -- 2. The prosodic representation of word-word compounds in Brazilian Portuguese -- 2. The prosodic representation of word-word compounds in Brazilian Portuguese -- 3. Complex compounds and prosodic adjunction -- 3.1 Compounds with adjunction vs. coordinate compounds -- 3.2 The representation of complex compounds -- 4. Final remarks -- References -- Chapter 8. Locality constraints on θ-theory: Evidence from Spanish ditransitives -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theoretical assumptions.

2.1 Locality and theta-role assignment -- 2.2 SE-reflexivity in Spanish -- 3. Deriving the main pattern -- 4. Further predictions -- 5. An alternative analysis -- 5.1 The Movement Theory of Reflexivization -- 5.2 Some problems for the MTR -- 6. Concluding remarks -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 9. Does gender agreement carry a production cost?: Does gender agreement carry a production cost?: Spanish gender vs. Palenquero -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Palenquero language (Lengua ri Palenge) -- 3. Experiment #1: Number recall + repetition -- 3.1 Participants -- 3.2 Materials -- 3.3 Procedure -- 3.4 Results and discussion -- 4. Experiment #2: Speeded translation -- 4.1 Participants -- 4.2 Materials -- 4.3 Procedure -- 4.4 Results and discussion -- 5. General discussion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Appendix. Sample test utterances -- Chapter 10. TP ellipsis with polarity particles -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The structure of TP-ellipsis -- 2.1 Stripping, TP-ellipsis and bare phrase construction -- 2.2 The TP-ellipsis structure -- 3. TP-ellipsis and island sensitivity -- 3.1 The exclusion of remnant long movement across islands -- 3.2 Exclusion from islands without remnant movement -- 4. The identification of the head of TP-ellipsis -- 4.1 The identity of T-features -- 4.2 TP ellipsis, finiteness and T-chains -- 4.3 T-ellipsis and recovering under identity -- 5. Summarizing -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 11. Circumventing ɸ-minimality: On some unorthodox cases of A-movement in Brazilian PortugueseOn some unorthodox cases of A-movement in Brazilian Portuguese -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Subject hyper-raising in Brazilian Portuguese -- 3. More instances of inherent Case circumventing ɸ-minimality -- 4. Some consequences -- 4.1 "Extralong" A-movement -- 4.2 Mixed cases -- 5. Movement-dependent agreement and the role of the EPP.

6. Concluding remarks -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 12. Epistemic uses of the verb decir in La Paz Spanish: Epistemic uses of the verb decir in La Paz Spanish: Digamos and dice -- Introduction -- Evidentiality, modality and stance -- The evidential marker dizque in American Spanish -- Materials, participants and method -- The analysis of dice -- Functions of dice -- Syntactic placement, semantic scope and pragmatic implications of dice -- The analysis of digamos -- Functions of digamos -- Syntactic placement, semantic scope and pragmatic features of digamos -- Discussion -- References -- Chapter 13. Oral Portuguese in Maputo from a diachronic perspective: Oral Portuguese in Maputo from a diachronic perspective: Diffusion of linguistic innovations in a language shift scenarioDiffusion of linguistic innovations in a language shift scenario -- Introduction -- Material and method -- Previous research -- Results -- Analysis of variation -- Summary and discussion -- References -- Chapter 14. Structural approaches to code-switching: Research then and now -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A recent history of structural approaches to code-switching -- 3. A first step towards a data-driven research program -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 15. When a piece of phonology becomes a piece of syntax: When a piece of phonology becomes a piece of syntax: The case of subject clitics -- 1. Overview of the phenomenon -- 1.1 The nature of auxiliary subject clitics across Northern Italian varieties -- 1.2 This goal of this chapter -- 2. Problems with dual phonology-syntax restriction on the distribution of the vocalic auxiliary scl -- 2.1 Lack of phonological restrictions elsewhere in the grammar -- 2.2 The distribution of clitics is otherwise determined by the presence of other syntactic entities.

2.2 The distribution of clitics is otherwise determined by the presence of other syntactic entities -- 2.3 Summary: Syntax is responsible for the distribution of clitics in Romance -- 2.3 Summary: Syntax is responsible for the distribution of clitics in Romance -- 3. Borgomanerese second person singular scls t and tal: Mirror image pattern -- 3. Borgomanerese second person singular scls t and tal: Mirror image pattern -- 3.1 The second person singular forms tal and t in Borgomanerese -- 3.2 Summary -- 4. Alternative hypothesis: Speakers take the onset of the consonantal auxiliary's syllable to be a syntactic object -- 4.1 Analysis for Torinese auxiliary scls and similar phenomena -- 4.2 Evidence for the "independent consonant" -- 5. Closing thoughts -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 16. Presence of the voiced labiodental fricative segment [v] in Texas Spanish -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theoretical background and framework -- 2.1 Labial consonants in Old Spanish -- 2.2 Labiodentalization in modern varieties -- 3. The present study -- 3.1 The speech tokens -- 3.2 Auditory analysis -- 3.3 Acoustic analysis -- 4. Results -- 4.1 Auditory analysis -- 4.2 Acoustic analysis -- 5. Conclusions -- References -- Index.

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